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NCLEX Nutrition
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nursing
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health-fitness-nutrition
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?
diet recall
2.5 cups
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
atrophy or wasting of muscle
2. What function is vitamin D?
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
review of systems
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
carrots and sweet potatoes
3. What is the function of vitamin E?
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
infants - children - pregnant or lactating
antioxidant - immune function
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
4. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?
bread - pasta - oatmeal - cereal - tortilla - and grits
liver and intestinal synthesis
5.5 ounces/day
apple is higher risk than a pear
5. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?
4 calories/gram
hemoglobin
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
6. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?
protein
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
bread - pasta - oatmeal - cereal - tortilla - and grits
prealbumin levels
7. What are healthy sources of fats?
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
6 oz. a day
3 cups
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
8. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
prealbumin levels
animal foods - fruits - veg - fortified milk
4 calories/gram
9. Fats can lead to some medical problems
vitamin K
dairy and fortified foods
activity - stress - temperature - pregnancy - smoking - caffeine - growth spurts
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
10. What is normal albumin levels?
6 oz. a day
3.5-5.5 grams/dL
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
11. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease
low albumin levels < 3.4
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
apple is higher risk than a pear
5.5 ounces/day
12. Sources of fats
albumin levels
decrease in total lymphocyte count
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
protein and fat
13. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?
rickets - osteomalacia
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
milk - enriched grains
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
14. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?
hemorrhage
liver and intestinal synthesis
protein
4 calories/gram
15. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily
review of systems
liver and intestinal synthesis
cream cheese - cream or butter
day week or month
16. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins
liver and intestinal synthesis
milk - enriched grains
day week or month
fat soluble vitamins
17. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?
TPN total parenteral nutrition
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
low albumin levels < 3.4
18. How many calories/gram is protein?
protein
protein and fat
4 calories/gram
milk - enriched grains
19. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
review of systems
5.5 ounces/day
18-25
20. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?
dietary approach to stop hypertension
starches - sugars - and cellulose
4 calories/gram
dark green - orange - drybeans
21. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?
low albumin levels < 3.4
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
day week or month
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
22. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
vegetable oil - peanuts - margarine
starches - sugars - and cellulose
fat soluble vitamins
23. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?
dairy and fortified foods
vitamin C - citrus fruits
protein
diet recall
24. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?
transferrin
antioxidant - immune function
vitamin C - citrus fruits
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
25. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?
300 cal/day increase
dairy and fortified foods
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
fat soluble vitamins
26. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?
2 cups
5.5 ounces/day
4 calories/gram
milk - enriched grains
27. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs
essential amino acids
B and C
albumin levels
one tspn salt or less
28. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram
can consume more calories without weight gain
fats
day week or month
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
29. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies
protein
2.5 cups
vitamin K
bread - pasta - oatmeal - cereal - tortilla - and grits
30. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value
trans fatty acid
rickets - osteomalacia
decrease in total lymphocyte count
review of systems
31. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet
essential amino acids
infants - children - pregnant or lactating
day week or month
protein
32. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?
vitamin K
vitamin C - citrus fruits
pregnant women or elderly
diet recall
33. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
500 cal/day
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
34. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy
protein and fat
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
2 cups
can consume more calories without weight gain
35. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?
low albumin levels < 3.4
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
3.5-5.5 grams/dL
vitamin K
36. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?
antioxidant - immune function
hemorrhage
one week period
fats
37. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value
low albumin levels < 3.4
TPN total parenteral nutrition
prealbumin levels
hemorrhage
38. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?
one tspn salt or less
4 calories/gram
cream cheese - cream or butter
antioxidant - immune function
39. How much more calories are needed for lactation?
500 cal/day
dairy and fortified foods
low albumin levels < 3.4
3 cups
40. What is normal BMI?
18-25
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
fat soluble vitamins
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
41. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?
vitamin K
diet recall
albumin levels
4 calories/gram
42. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?
2.5 cups
prealbumin levels
18-25
4 calories/gram
43. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy
protein
activity - stress - temperature - pregnancy - smoking - caffeine - growth spurts
TPN total parenteral nutrition
vitamin K
44. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
folic acid - orange juice - meat - green leafy veg
review of systems
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
45. What is the function of vitamin C?
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
one week period
46. When does BMR decrease?
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
low albumin levels < 3.4
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
47. How much sodium may be consumed per day?
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
4 calories/gram
one tspn salt or less
6 oz. a day
48. What orange vegetables are good to eat?
carrots and sweet potatoes
cream cheese - cream or butter
trans fatty acid
apple is higher risk than a pear
49. What type of people need extra protein?
apple is higher risk than a pear
decrease in total lymphocyte count
infants - children - pregnant or lactating
cream cheese - cream or butter
50. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
300 cal/day increase
2.5 cups
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth